Improvement in fare-registers



W. DANIELS.

Fare-Register. y

Patented May 5,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICEe VILIIIAM DANIELS, OF IIOBOKEN, NEWT JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 150,529, dacd May 5, 187.1; application liled April 27, 1874. l

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM DANIELs, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in FareRegisters for Conductors on Street- Gars, &c., of which the following is a speciication:

This invention is for keeping tally of the fares received by the conductor, and as generally there are two or three rates of fares, I provide separate counting-dials and push-buttons, one for each rate of fare, and arrange them to act upon one hammer-slide that moves the hammer for striking the bell, but the parts are made to indicate different sounds on the bell. I also employ a peculiar locking mechanism for attaching the instrument to the coat or garment of the conductor.

In the drawing, Figure l is a view of the register with the cap removed. Fig. 2 is a rear view. Fig. 3 is a section of the bell and of the registering mechanism. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the actuating mechanism. Fig. 5 shows the slides and spriug-pawls acting on the countingwheels. Fig. 6 shows the construction of the push-button and slides. Fig. 7 represents the attaching-plate. Fig. 8 is a section of the same, and Fig. 9 shows part of one of the slides.

The plate c5 has a stud, b, that carries a bell, c, and the other operative portions of the register. There are also two or more push-buttons. I have shown three, marked 3, 5, and (i, as illustrative of the value of the fares they are intended to compute. These push-buttons are each mounted upon a sleeve that surrounds a hollow stud projecting from the plate a5, and in which hollow stud is a helical spring to project the button to the level of the cap-plate c, or nearly so. A screw in a slot acts as a guide, and limits the extent of movement. This cap-plate c is provided with openings for the push-buttons, and, by preference, a number is upon such cap-plate to indicate the number of the instrument, or the car with which it is used. The hammer-slide f is provided with a tooth, 4, that acts upon the hammer-tail h to throw back the latter, and when liberated the spring 8, Fig. 4, causes the hammer to strike the bell, after which the spring 7, Fig. 1, returns the slide and parts to a normal position. This slide f is moved by the inclined arm l of the push-button 3, or the inclined arm m of th@ push-button 5, or by the inclined arm n of the push-button 6, so that the hammer will be operated to strike the bell one blow, when either push-button is operated by the linger of the conductor pressed upon it. In order that different sounds may be produced, I connect with the push-button 3 a slight spring, l0, which, coming into contact with the bell as such button 3 is presssed in, deadens the sound. "When the button 6 is pressed down the arm a thereof moves the bell hammer slide f and hammers, as before, and brings the 1in ger 0 into the path of the secondary hammer-arm r, as illustrated in Fig. 6, so that the hammer will strike as usual, but the secondary arm r will be held back by the fmger o until the push-button Gis allowed to rise, when the linger o, moving from behind the secondary hammer 1', allows the spring of that secondary hammer to project the same and give a second blow. By these means the ham'- mer will strike one distinct blow when the push-button 5 is depressed; there will be two blows when the push-button Gis operated, and a deadened sound of the bell when the button 3 is depressed. The computation of the fares is made upon the disks t u c, that are made with ratchet-teeth, and numbered on their surfaces, to indicate either the number of the fares or the accumulated value in cents. The disk a is operated by the spring-pawl t1 on the slide t2, that is moved by the inclined arm t3 of the push-button 3. The disk t is operated by the spring-pawl u1 on the slide u2, that is moved by the inclined arm a3 of the push-button 5, and the disk c is operated by the spring-pawl o1 and slide o2, and the inclined arm o3 on the push-pin 6. Retaining-pawls should be applied to each disk to prevent them turning the wron g way, and the disks t and o have applied to them star-wheels and y to turn one tooth each revolution of the respective disk, and thereby enumerate the accumulation of fares by more than one revolution of the respective disks. The numbers on the disks and starwheels are observed through an opening in the back plate a, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and this opening is covered by a movable attachingplate, al, that is made double and provided with an opening in the portion that is next to the plate a, and into this the button-headed stud b1 slips, and there are locking projections c' c attached to the plate a, and passing into holes in the attaching-plate al, and a suitable lockingbolt is inserted between the two plates ot' the mo vable back al, as seen at a", which, passing into grooves in the side of the projections c', retain the back al to the plate a. This bolt at is operated by a key of suitable construction introduced, by preference, through a key-hole at the edge of al, and this key and locking-bolt, with its tumblers or safety appliances, are to be of any usual character, so that the back al can only be removed, for access to the computing-disks, by a properlyauthorized person. Io secure the register to the coat or other part of the conductors garments, I provide the pins b2, that are fastened to the back al, and hool; beneath the catches b, and these are contiguous to the ends of c" c that project through the back plate u1, hence, by securing the back al to the garment by the pins b2 before the back al is pressed against the plate a, the projections c will close the hooks or catches b, so that the pins cannot be unhooked or the instrument removed.

I do not herein claim, broadly, the combination oi' a single slide and hammer, a bell, and a series of push-buttons; but

I claim as my invention- 1. rIhe combination ot' push buttons having inclined arms, actuating the registering mechanism and operating the slide controlling the hammers, to denote differentsounds upon the bell, with the hammers, a bell, and a slide, substantially as set forth.

2. A push-button provided with the inclined arms, which move therewith, in combination with the main hammer, bell, and registering mechanism, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

3. The push-button made with a tube sliding on a hollow stud, and provided with aspring and two inclined arms, one to actuate the hammer and the other to move the computing wheels or mechanism, as set forth.

1. The spring l0 upon the puslrbutton 3, to pass upon the bell when said push-button is moved, for the purposes specified.

5. A movable back connected to the plate a of the instrument, and secured in place by a lock, and serving to cover the openin through which the computing-disks are examined, as set forth.

(3. The pins b2 and hooks b3, for attaching` thcbacka1 to the garment, in combination with the projections c on the plate a, and the mechanism l'or locking the back al to the plate a, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 25th day of April, A. l). 1874..

IILLIAM DNIELS.

XYitnesses:

tino. l). WALKnn, Girls. H. Sni'rn. 

